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According to Love My Beanies, first generation Beanie Babies are some of the rarest ones available and can be worth a significant amount of money. Speedy the turtle was released with the first generation. By the time Speedy was retired in 1997, it had been re-released and included tags from generations 1, 2, 3 and 4. As stated by Smart Collecting, the authenticated Speedy Beanie Baby with mint tags sold for $1,000 at auction in September 2000.